Grand Slam is a performance about tennis, work, unemployement and techniques of happiness. With modified rules, the great games of the past are re-played once again on the theater tennis court. The theater becomes a multimedia long-playing record, a 3D wide-screen mix with interaction sensors. Balls are hit with electric guitars, a classic computer game, "Pong", which is based on tennis, is performed as live choreography and the history of a sport in which "love" is the real aim of the game is explained in lectures. Behind the scenes of course lurks the nightmare of a world in which the organization of leisure time has become the only response to rising unemployment.

Grand Slam is a devised performance for a life size tennis court (indoor or outdoor version).

Idea, realisation: Showcase Beat Le Mot / Music: Albrecht Kunze

Grand Slam is a production by Showcase Beat Le Mot.

....The label Showcase Beat Le Mot is one of the most prominent representatives of a theater work that has caused an international sensation under the term 'New Giessen School'. The performance "Grand Slam" builds bridges from sport to culture and society in a strangely effortless way. Its entertainment value is measured by its programmatic understatement, its unwaveringly serious approach to comedy: just short of social research and 'high' art - and yet right on target....

 (Biograph, Oktober 1999, "Cultural Studies und ernsthafte Komik Showcase Beat Le Mot mit „Grand Slam“ im Theater im Zollhaus")